Kyle Ferriter
Software Engineer at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Ferriter is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and data-intensive systems, currently developing software and cloud solutions for clinical genomics at the Broad Institute. He combines deep backend engineering—contributions to iRODS data management and OpenID-authenticated data grids—with practical cloud expertise across AWS and GCP, including BigQuery/Athena and secure object storage patterns. His work spans distributed genomics pipelines, serverless analytics, and REST services, grounded in a strong academic background (MS/BS from NC State) and hands-on research at Stanford Medicine. Kyle pairs systems-level thinking with developer-facing tooling and automation (Docker, Ansible, CWL, Jupyter), and has a history of enabling secure, reproducible research platforms for sensitive biomedical data. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a blend of academic rigor and production experience, plus an outdoorsy curiosity that often informs pragmatic, resilient engineering choices.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics, BS in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (8)
user-authentication10
authentication10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
openid10
data-management10
plugin-development9
cmake8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
irods/irods
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Open Source Data Management Software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the iRODS data management software by implementing and modifying core backend functionalities. Their work included adding a generic authentication object, modifying the authentication factory, and incorporating linked list headers. They also made significant changes to the client login mechanism, particularly in relation to OpenID authentication. These changes likely enhance the software's authentication capabilities.
policydata-sourcedata-managementradc-plus-plus
clingen-data-model/clinvar-api
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Software for working with the ClinVar web API
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 months
clinvarapipythonweb-api
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